c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'" — Paul Feig
"I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring." — Tila Tequila
"The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler." — Mario Batali
"While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne." — Mark E. Hyman
"I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time." — Danica Patrick
"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated." — Erma Bombeck
"The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing." — Jo Brand
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it." — Robert Morgan
"I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano." — Carla Bley
"The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable." — Terri Clark
"All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all." — Tiger Woods
"It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class." — Janos Kadar
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity." — Martin Van Buren
"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets." — Hamlin Garland
"Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future." — Carl Hiaasen
"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force." — Sheikh Hasina
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment." — Gale Norton
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one." — John C. Maxwell
"I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that." — Gary Numan
"The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now." — Taylor Swift
"I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan." — Shinzo Abe
"Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think." — Kevin Garnett
"I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food." — Lea Michele
"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction." — Sholom Aleichem
"It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it." — Ben Stein
"My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light." — Linda Hamilton
"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." — Clifford Stoll
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories." — Stefan Banach
"In politics you learn to always smile." — Eliot Spitzer
"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to." — Andrew Shue
"I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive." — Rob Brydon
"How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?" — Robert Plant
"My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess." — Chloe Moretz
"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience." — Immanuel Kant
"I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight." — Chris Bell
"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time." — Richard Dawkins
"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird." — Norman MacCaig
"You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do." — Bear Grylls
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon." — John Berger
"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology." — Whitfield Diffie
"I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it." — David Duchovny
"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified." — Jeremy Renner
"War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares." — John Cory
"Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios." — Vincent Cassel
"At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them." — Rose McGowan
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men." — Albert Claude
"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows." — Milton Glaser
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding." — Martin Luther
"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it." — Mia Hamm
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you." — Usain Bolt
"Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful." — Paula Radcliffe
"Fear is the passion of slaves." — Patrick Henry
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world." — Frank Lloyd Wright
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." — Emile Zola
"It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents." — John Linder
"I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it." — Bill Rancic
"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways." — Laurie Anderson
"Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency." — Jay Inslee
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." — Will Durant
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art." — Richard Rogers
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done." — Peter Drucker
"My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down." — Hale Irwin
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority." — Joseph Addison
"It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot." — Justin Bieber
"Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here." — Ramakrishna
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." — Winston Churchill
"The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations." — David Suzuki
"If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?" — Tony Campolo
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things." — Sophocles
"Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table." — Garrett Hedlund
"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons." — Mordechai Vanunu
"I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith." — Garth Ennis
"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people." — John Desmond Bernal
"Life is short, the art long." — Hippocrates
"Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest." — Mitt Romney
"I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level." — J. C. Watts
"Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her." — Lorna Luft
"Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry." — Gilbert Parker
"I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me." — James Wood
"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less." — Robert Wyatt
"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." — Harrison Ford
"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was." — Faye Dunaway
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter." — Benjamin Disraeli
"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please." — Tom T. Hall
"Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town." — Steven Curtis Chapman
"There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people." — Mohammed Morsi
"If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies." — Daniel Craig
"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child." — Neal Barnard
"Professional sports is a business." — Lynn Swann
"Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word." — Patrick J. Kennedy
"I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better." — Xi Jinping
"The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it." — Umberto Eco
"We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards." — John Hutton
"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth." — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live." — Jean Cocteau
"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." — Meister Eckhart
"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband." — Elsa Maxwell
"When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news." — Dick Gregory
"And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over." — Ed Rendell
"If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny." — Dee Hock
"Men are only as loyal as their options." — Bill Maher
"As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job." — Roseanne Barr
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." — Alan Kay
"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make." — Edward Kennedy
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." — John Steinbeck
"I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook." — Joan Jett
"We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success." — Mike Peters
"The only real failure in life is one not learned from." — Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them." — Russell Baker
"Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from." — Rodney Atkins
"If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things." — Lord Robertson
"I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement." — Bridget Hall
"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning." — Andrei Platonov
"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." — Ann Landers
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that." — Lord Acton
"I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does." — Jason Aldean
"I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile." — Carson Kressley
"When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too." — Karen Armstrong
"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member." — Doug Coupland
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." — Audrey Hepburn
"The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning." — Harrison Salisbury
"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level." — Karen Armstrong
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." — Abraham Lincoln
"People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish." — Emma Watson
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." — James Allen
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money." — Don Marquis
"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price." — Jonathan Potter
"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can." — Julius Caesar
"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack." — Timothy Olyphant
"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge." — Julian Bond
"This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first." — Brad Henry
"Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too." — Michael Jordan
"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly." — Michael Chabon
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." — Thomas Sowell
"God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement." — Marcus Garvey
"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains." — William Penn
"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis." — John Dewey
"I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing." — Patricia Velasquez
"It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen." — Johnny Knoxville
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges
"I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road." — Kevyn Aucoin
"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves." — Joyce Maynard
"But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone." — Wallace Shawn
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun." — John Desmond Bernal
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into." — Mahatma Gandhi
"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know." — Arthur Koestler
"What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?" — Jennifer Aniston
"Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka." — James Buchan
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men." — Bede Griffiths
"Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally." — Ginnifer Goodwin
"Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach." — Lydia Ko
"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me." — Camillo di Cavour
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau
"Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition." — Freeman Thomas
"The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family." — Mitt Romney
"All of a sudden, Hulk Hogan has become retro. Hulk Hogan has become cool again. So to come out and to hear how loud the fans are. To hear how loyal the fans are, it's truly overwhelming. I just can't believe I've been reborn in the WWE." — Hulk Hogan
"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society." — Mike Tyson
"Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others." — Daisaku Ikeda
"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline." — Michel Foucault
"Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!" — Roger Moore
"I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them." — Peta Wilson
"I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America." — Tim Scott
"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business." — Wilfrid Laurier
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." — Plato
"For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean)." — Douglas Hofstadter
"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry." — Emily Procter
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." — Salvador Dali
"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it." — Peter Davison
"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile." — Jean Giraudoux
"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams." — David Brooks
"Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money." — Rush Limbaugh
"People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film." — Mike Mills
"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?" — Mary Douglas
"I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change." — Richard Nelson Bolles
"Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out." — Beck
"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment." — Morihei Ueshiba
"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer." — Bobby Seale
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." — Epictetus
"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better." — Marya Mannes
"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion." — Thomas Hobbes
"You're going to relegate my history to a month." — Morgan Freeman
"If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want." — Heidi Klum
"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men." — Voltaire
"Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?" — Mitch McConnell
"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate." — Charles de Gaulle
"I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people." — Charlie Kaufman
"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." — Henry Adams
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business." — Paul Valery
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords." — William Samuel Johnson
"You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson." — Christina Ricci
"Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues." — Tom Vilsack
"Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs." — Ron D. Burton
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." — Franklin P. Jones
"I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?" — Oscar Nunez
"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does." — Lascelles Abercrombie
"I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad." — Frank Bruno
"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all." — Queen Elizabeth II
"I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives." — Zach Braff
"I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel." — Beth Ditto
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!" — Carrie Preston
"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience." — Chinua Achebe
"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear." — Ayrton Senna
"This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President." — Pratibha Patil
"My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant." — Susana Martinez
"We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights." — Frank Murphy
"I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?" — Cecily von Ziegesar
"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!" — Abigail Van Buren
"I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life." — Ethan Suplee
"So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me." — Kathy Mattea
"For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves." — Anne Heche
"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry." — George Jean Nathan
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness." — Thomas Huxley
"Advertising is legalized lying." — H. G. Wells
"I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot." — Amanda Hocking
"In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage." — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that." — John Legend
"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true." — Walt Disney
"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan." — Alan Price
"The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals." — Arthur Wellesley
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." — Oscar Wilde
"The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family." — Glenn Tipton
"On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger." — Eddie Van Halen
"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have." — Naomi Watts
"We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us." — Joan D. Vinge
"I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time." — Zooey Deschanel
"I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me." — Kim Kardashian
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." — George Jean Nathan
"I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic." — Dudley Moore
"The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep." — W. C. Fields
"Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics." — Caroline Kennedy
"I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters." — Debbie Macomber
"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others." — Gerald Jampolsky
"It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of." — Michael Nesmith
"I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics." — Benjamin Netanyahu
"Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere." — Jeff Ross
"I would kiss you, had I the courage." — Edouard Manet
"There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones." — Anwar Sadat
"Life is a predicament which precedes death." — Henry James
"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now." — David R. Brower
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life." — Jean de La Fontaine
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity." — Abraham Cowley
"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing." — Valentino Rossi
"Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is." — Sarah Zettel
"I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand." — Leonardo DiCaprio
"I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle." — Barry Goldwater
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe." — Dennis Potter
"I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be." — Matthew Rhys
"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." — Alfred Adler
"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone." — Paul Simon
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." — Hilaire Belloc
"The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky." — Graham Norton
"We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means." — Tom Coburn
"I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground." — Charlie Sheen
"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more." — John Bunyan
"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them." — Jamie Muir
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." — Dan Quayle
"Poetry is a sort of homecoming." — Paul Celan
"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less." — Plato
"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely." — E. O. Wilson
"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education." — John Bruton
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom." — Francis Bacon
"My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work." — Iain Duncan Smith
"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it." — Hillary Clinton
"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!" — Sylvia Kristel
"At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it." — Jenna Ushkowitz
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." — Winston Churchill
"I am still learning." — Michelangelo
"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?" — Kate Millett
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions." — Ian Smith
"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." — Pablo Picasso
"The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland." — Christian Lous Lange
"My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day." — Jane Fonda
"When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween." — Gavin DeGraw
"The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed." — Nigel Farage
"The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence." — Bill Nelson
"As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work." — Frances O'Grady
"I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was." — John Badham
"Food should be fun." — Thomas Keller
"Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician." — Miranda Lambert
"Great acts are made up of small deeds." — Lao Tzu
"The most positive men are the most credulous." — Alexander Pope
"The heart will break, but broken live on." — Lord Byron
"Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have." — Mark Cuban
"Work isn't to make money you work to justify life." — Marc Chagall
"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection." — Irving Babbitt